S.R. Ford Quotes

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.

I don't care where you are in the world, people are aware of what technology is available to others. If you're in Nairobi, you're certainly aware of the iPhone.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

We are all stronger than we can ever imagine being. Every choice matters starting with today. And today, I choose to live.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us best friends.

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.

Taking back our light from those we’ve projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

I don’t believe in all this public-funded health care, we can’t afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it.

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.